This chapter is subtitled: The Conscience of America

"Hello, Ms. Cather. Your My Antonio is so well written, and the wilderness of the book can cleanse the heart. I think your book is a great book that perfectly blends the two advanced concepts of women's rights and the protection of the environment. Well, I call it ......"

“ecofeminism！”

This English word, which should have appeared half a century later, came out of the mouth, and the people around them all showed a look of "unclear".

Lady Vera-Cather was slightly distracted and said in her mouth: "ecofeminism, ecofeminism...... Ecofeminism! ”

It's ecology again, and it's women's rights, do you know that it's very advanced and universal when you listen to it?

After a while, the famous female writer actually made a lady's salute to Master Yuan, and said with a straight face: "Mr. Yuan, you are worthy of being an outstanding writer who can write such feminism as Chocolate." What a word for ecofeminism! ”

Yuan Yanqian also bowed down and said solemnly: "Where, where, this is also inspired by your work Ms. Cather, so I was able to invent this word." ”

Miss Helen Brown, who had looked at him whitely, spoke again, this time in a very pale tone; "Neo, this is today's special guest, Mr. Theodore Dreiser!"

For Yuan Yanqi, a native of Seris, the name Theodore Dresser is much more familiar than that of Vera Cather.

If you really want to talk about the status of literature, he, the master of "critical realism", is more than a step above the "ecological feminist". He was both the first outstanding writer of twentieth-century American literature and a pioneer of modern America; In the history of American literature, he was the first to write truthfully about the new American urban life without prejudice, which can be called the conscience of the United States.

Under his influence, a large number of realist writers emerged in the United States, including Fitzgerald, the author of the great Gatsby. And Fitzgerald later really called Dresser the greatest writer in contemporary America.

Theodore Dresser, along with William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, is one of the three greatest American writers of the twentieth century, but realistically speaking, he is only as high as the other two in the history of literature.

He was born in 1871 in Indiana to a bankrupt family of small business owners. Childhood was spent in misery, and before graduating from high school, he went to Chicago to earn a living on his own. In 1889, he enrolled at Indiana University, where he dropped out again a year later because he could not pay his tuition. In 1892, he became a journalist.

He used to work as a dishwasher in a restaurant, a laundry worker, a ticket inspector at a train station, and a furniture store clerk. These experiences exposed him to various characters and dark sides of the lower classes, and accumulated rich material for his future creations. That's why Mr. Dresser was able to write realistic works that faithfully reproduced American society at the time, such as his famous work Sister Carrie and his sister Miss Jenny.

Carrie's sister writes about a rural girl, Carrie, who comes to the big city of Chicago to join her sister and brother-in-law, and works as a female worker in a shoe factory in order to earn a living. In order to escape poverty and hardship, she became the mistress of a salesman and then a hotel manager. In the end, she became an actress with her beauty and singing voice......

Hey, why does Mao look so familiar?

Our Master Yuan recalled this book, and actually had a sense of déjà vu, female workers - "love" - splitting legs - success...... Is this an inspirational example of the women of Seris a hundred years from now?

Oops, is it so bad to read for Mao so inspirationally? It must be that this Mr. Dresser is not up to the same level. He really should learn from the realist writers of Cyris, a hundred years later.

Female workers are replaced by female white-collar workers, salesmen are replaced by workplace elites, hotel managers are replaced by real trenches, the heroine drives a car sent by workplace elites, lives in a real trench room, and finally becomes a CAO of a large company after some self-struggle and several split-leg tires......

CAO, does this need to be explained?

And there should be more Starbucks, L'Oreal, Prada, Durex, Ferrari in the book...... Something strange seems to have slipped in. No matter what, should this book be written according to the routine of the childhood?

Later, the master also wrote a book based on his sister, Miss Jenny, in which the heroine was also born out of wedlock and was a mistress or something. The plot was originally good, but there was a problem with the writing, otherwise it would be a modern woman who is a proper "I smoke, I drink, I **, but I'm a good girl".

Although his writing is not good, his literary status is really high. Therefore, Master Yuan still said very politely: "It turned out to be Mr. Dressey, it is really my honor to meet a literary master like you." I've read your little ...... Well, your dreams...... Well, in short, a lot of works. I've really benefited a lot. ”

He said sincerely: "Especially the genius book. It's really a realistic work that resonates with me. ”

Yuan Yanqian did not say anything flattering because he wanted to shoot the master's ass, and he did like the genius of Dresser's writing in 1915.

So what does this one say?

The protagonist of the genius is an extremely talented painter Jia, whose work is artistically excellent. However, it has never been recognized by the capital and property. These vulgar and stupid guys can't understand it, and they call him Shabi. So the actor naturally hit the street. In order to make money, he could only learn from "successful experiences" and cater to "popular tastes", and finally became a vulgar philistine who sold art and art...... Well, a "genius".

Oh, as soon as I said this, Master Yuan felt that this book and the protagonist in the book were very familiar, very similar, very similar, very similar...... So who's coming?

In short, Theodore Dresser really deserves to be a true master of realist literature. Just like Sister Carrie, Miss Jenny and Genius, these works can be said to be "one-size-fits-all". What happened in his portrait of a large capitalist country with rapid development was not at all out of harmony in a large country in the East, which was completely different from the historical background of the United States a whole century later.

When the great realist writer with a pair of gold-rimmed glasses and a rather gentle appearance heard this, he also said with a smile on his face: "Mr. Yuan, I am also very happy to meet you. And I've read both of yours, and it's really outstanding. ”

Yuan Yanqi's expression was very serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Mr. Dresser, mine is just showing off words and skills, which seem gorgeous but are actually empty. And yours is the one who really upholds the great tradition of realism since Balzac. ”

"Personally," he said categorically, "I personally think that only Mr. Thomas Hardy can compare to you in our time!" "Note 1

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Note 1: Master Yuan is talking about the realist writers who have become famous and are still alive in the British and American literary circles in 1920. If you really want to expand it to include both the deceased and the foreign, it will be endless.